Humans have lived alongside parrots for thousands of years, and only recently have they considered the… — Ted Chiang
Humans have lived alongside parrots for thousands of years, and only recently have they considered the possibility that we might be intelligent.
I suppose I can’t blame them. We parrots used to think humans weren’t very bright. It’s hard to make sense of behavior that’s so different from your own.
p. 233Source: Wikiquote · CC BY-SA 4.0
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